No snow in Fuji this October.

It’s just really hard to go to intensive classes because they are super expensive. Another problem, for someone like me, is the fact that there aren’t any intensive classes near me. And just as you said, traveling is an added expense. Not to mention the time missed from work etc.. And I don’t spend a lot of money on trees and pots. So it’s not like I can just stop doing that, to put the money towards intensives. But that’s why I appreciate videos and channels like yours. Loving the podcast so far man!

Cheers for the headsup, like so many others i fell in love with ume and started growing them. Here in Australia there's very little material around at all, so you are forced to start with younger propagated material. The idea of grafting onto a more interesting prunus trunk holds a lot of merit in my mind and is something i'll certainly keep an eye out for going forward as there's lots of feral plums on roadsides here. What would be your timing for doing a harder cut back on ume generally? Curious as i have 2 garden trees that may eventually become bonsai though will almost certainly be through grafting down the track.

I used to care deeply about the size of leaf when my goal was showing in Autumn colour as opposed to winter. After years of getting sunburnt maple leaves from my climate here in Australia in late summer and losing my autumn colour i focused on winter display instead and as such i no longer put a huge amount of value on it. As you say on shohin it is more of a concern as large leaves correlate (generally) to larger internodes and i would err away, but for medium size trees it doesn't bother me much. I'd just go for a more dwarf cultivar for shohin to save the headaches anway such as Kashima, Kiyohime, Shishi or Kotohime instead with shorter internodes naturally. I have a Seigen young tree i picked up recently, and the leaves are enormous right now. Down the track as it grows, and the vigor is spread out over a whole tree rather than less than 50 leaves, i'm hoping to see a reduction somewhat. If it doesn't no big deal as it's it's a winter/ spring flush display tree.

Beautiful trees and very inspiring thank you

Lovely color this year on your Nishiki Gawa! 👏🍁

How about an autumn garden tour? Those colors look amazing in the background!!

So, was this tree left to grow all season, or was there cutback after first flush hardening?

Great looking tree Andrew, you mentioned Nishiki will bark up faster than the Arakawa? I have 3 Nishiki and Arakawa, all are about 5-7 yrs old. My Arakawa stock came from Bill Valavanis, Nishikiare from a nursery. Is there a big genetic component in the barking up that you’re aware of? My Arakawa are barking up nicely at this point, Nishiki not so much? All are field planted as well, so pretty much growing freely with unlimited resources. Just curious as I will select for the better genetics if this is a consideration. Keep up the great content!

Nice music.

Great video. Will you cut it back hard in the future to get the foliage closer to the trunk? Also, is it possible to cut these right back to the trunk and regrow the branches?

Hey love your channel, really great info! Do you have any Liquidambar bonsai? Their autumn colour is amazing and the most consistent next to red and trident maple in my area

Unfortunately for Bonsai professionals that need to make $ you can learn on KZbin. Classes are a great way to meet people and future friends. I live in a small town and have learned everything on KZbin. Thanks for a great channel and awesome showing in Pacific show

Intensive classes are absolutely the best. I feel like it really helped me (and I’m not just saying that because I go to yours)

Excellent content keeping the post-expo excitement going. Keep up the good work guys!

Looking forward to coming to the Fall intensive in November

hey, looking forward to getting down there next weekend. I'm hoping you plan to upload these to Spotify so I can have some driving material to listen to (a little easier than youtube in the car)

🖖

Excellent overview, thanks again for this great discussion and sharing your experience guys. I'd love to travel over from the UK for an intensive one day

👍

Trying help my club understand your exact point about how there are "bonsai techniques" aka refinement/maintenance techniques that have no use for getting a 1 year old seedling to bigger sizes (and they slow that process down)

Beautiful trees and display Andrew 🙏

I was so thrilled to see a Corylopsis in the show! I have one that I will keep enjoying and working with. I loved the display - with the wide Corylopsis lower than the juniper. The other trees were stellar too! Thank you for bringing your artistry to the 2nd Pacific Bonsai Expo!

I've always been curious to know the stories of the displays and the effort that is put into the compositions by the artists. This was great. Very informative and fun vid-- thanks Andrew!

❤❤❤❤

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

As always, I admire your enthusiasm and the great quality of your work Andrew. Amazing event! Thank you for sharing

Congratulations on your beautiful trees and your beautiful displays. For me, your aesthetic and thoughtfulness in putting these together is spot on.

The display and the trees look awesome!!

I snagged a really nice multi-trunk River birch not to long ago. I cant wait to work on it in spring.

Something just hit me, what about petiole size? Some trees that have a larger leaf also have a lengthy petiole, does it also reduce in time?

a reset on a conifer is chopping the top and making a cascade, god I hate that.

Thanks for these great discussions. I've really been enjoying your channel, and especially these long-form conversations. Keep it up!

I think it would be really cool if you do an episode with your Dad. Bonsai, as a father son hobby, is pretty badass

I never understood why Japanese hold conifer trees at a higher level. Imo conifers are kinda boring in a sense. Im a Carpinus fiend

Heading to Japan is there a nursary or area you think does good deciduous bonsai?

Your discussions are so fascinating

Really enjoy your podcasts. Keep up the good work!

Do you have Chinese Pistache? Its related to sumac, getting the same fall colors, smaller leaves, and it lives a lot longer. It has the best fall colors of any tree I know!

Conifers are boring. Japanese maples are heavenly. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

So glad you are doing these video/podcasts--they're wonderful! Pottery is another factor. With conifers, you're kind of stuck with deep unglazed rectangles (as a "rule") but deciduous allow for every possible shape, depth and color. I love unglazed pots for deciduous, but it's nice to know I could pick a bright red lotus if I wanted. Plus, you know almost immediately if you messed up. With a pine, it's been dead for a month by the time you see the needles turn.

Thanks for sharing content. More conversations and knowledge on native species! I love cottonwood, chokecherry, cascara, kinnikinnick/manzanita, and Ninebark, etc. 🤘

Best show yet #4

are these available on podcast platforms or might they be soon?

Hey Andrew, fellow Andrew reaching out. I've been going all-in on bonsai this year, and really liked your advice from the first podcast on focusing on a few species to start out. I'd like to focus on JMs and Yews to get some deciduous and conifer experience. I live in Ohio, which as you mentioned isn't a great spot for finding bonsai material. I think JMs are awesome but most of the ones I find are grafted varieties for landscaping. What states would you say are the "nursery capitals" of the US?

Interesting episode for sure! I heard in a video Eric Shrader of Bonsaify made about your garden you talked about “cut, wire, cut, cut” or as Eric called it “morse code”, that’s something that really intrigued me, could you elaborate on that? Perhaps in the next episode, why you do it, the aesthetic it creates, etc.

I think decidious trees are more interesting than many conifers. They change according to seasons, and that makes us see and apreciate a trees ramification more! I live in a "challenging" climate a bit north in scandinavia, and i have access to some gnarly and twisted mountain birches. The landowner have granted me promission to collect a lot of those mountain birches next spring, and i cant wait!!

Is there any info for yoshino cherry trees for bonsai

I'm in love with deciduous trees!! Sometimes i feel bad because everybody is so focused on coniferous, specially pines and itogawas, and i'm not so into that. Thank u for your work and making me feel a bit better eheh 🌱

14:35 I can relate to this part 100%. I had this beautiful trident maple, it was one of the first trees I bough when I decided to take bonsai seriously (around year 4). It had some bad taper (on both trunk and branches) and horrible scarring and a bad root base. After around 3 years I set out a plan to fix all these problems and realized its going to take me years upon years to fix all of these problems. So just last week I sold it and I have replaced it with a much better specimen to spend all these years 'starting again' and I will end up overtaking where the old tree would have been in the long run.